[WP 101] WordPress User Roles: What Are They?

Many of CreativeMinds’ plugins have features related to WordPress User Roles. From Subscriber to Editor and all the way to Administrator and beyond, User Roles grant different levels of access to your users, being an essential part of WordPress. As such, it’s important to know what you can achieve with them.

What are Capabilities?

Different roles have access to different information.

Real Life Example: Company Financial Records

Going back to the example of the company, let’s think about financial records.

Not all personnel has access to the financial records, which might be stored in a locked safe. In other words, not every user has the capability to view them. The CEO and the accountant will surely have the “key” to see all pages, but the managers might have only limited access. And finances probably don’t fall under the scope of interns, so they won’t be have access at all.